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Love, Lift, Lighten
In the average church service today the focus goes something like this:
"Listen. Learn. Lunch". It seems of paramount importance to offer instruction in righteousness, with the congregation remaining largely passive, and with the sense of fellowship enhanced by...
Bending Like the Willows
(Taken from Like Christ by Andrew Murray - In His Humility)
The blessedness of a Christ-like humility is unspeakable. It is of great worth in the sight of God: "He giveth grace to the humble." In the spiritual life it is the source of rest and joy. To the...
Four Things
FOUR things a man must learn to do
If he would make his record true: To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellow man sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heaven securely.
(Henry Van Dyke)
Think...love...act...trust. A life that is...
Double-mindedness…what’s that?
Jan12 by justhappeneduponthis
To listen to God in one ear and to the trends and wanderings of a hell-bent world in the other; to be consistently unsure of self; to miss the Lord’s smile; to sense the pollution of traitor in one’s being; to dodge repeatedly any...
On My Case
I remember a night in early summer when I was called as a solicitor to meet with a number of men at a Board meeting for a Christian retreat property near Wallaceburg.
The facility had a large main lodge and dining hall, numerous cabins, playing fields, expansive grounds and...
Keith Speaks Again
The heart and the hunger of Keith Green, singer-prophet of over three decades ago, often put the Church to shame.
There is a new release of the song "Let Me Rediscover You" by the group "Downhere". I hope that it gets lots of mileage over the airways. The singer is dry...
Move of God
I remember seeing a painting of George Whitefield (1714 - 1770) preaching to a crowd in an English village. The faces of those in attendance registered every possible reaction – mild interest, polite boredom, awkward smirks, heckling, distraction toward the activity of...
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In Ezra’s Time
Jan6 by justhappeneduponthis
It is good that I am here
More than just a house of stone
Place of rest in Israel’s God
God of all the earth alone.
They had come from Persian lords
Pleased to worship as they might
Weeping as the chains were lost...
Burden of Zechariah
Dec25 by justhappeneduponthis
Michelangelo Paints Zechariah in Sistine Chapel
I have borne
With their starch
And their sad, stiff rebellion
I have watched
As they mimicked
All the godless around.
Yet I say,
Now’s the time
To descend to their rescue
And to lift
As...
To the Children of Men
Aug5 by justhappeneduponthis
Psalm 107 is all about the diverse deliverances given by our God. Out of hunger. Sickness. Imprisonment. Wanderings. Loneliness. Natural disaster. Oppression. Drought.
One refrain is noticeable throughout this rather long Psalm:
Oh that...
Mothers of Salem
December 14, 2012
When mothers of Salem
Their children brought to Jesus,
The stern disciples drove them back
And bade them depart.
But Jesus saw them
Ere they fled, and sweetly smiled,
And kindly said:
“Suffer little children to come unto me.”
I chuckle whenever I hear...
Hand of a Child
December 16, 2012
Painting by Georges de la Tour-St. Joseph the Carpenter
Take the hand of a child
Hold it firmly
Respectfully
A fresh life examines
Your eyes and mien
Looks for truth and safety
Knows quicker than most
Of its discovery
Or its absence
Registers every...
Glory in the Straw
December 14, 2012
Wouldn’t you know it! Christmas Eve and that cow had decided that it was time.
Signs of the birthing had come on around 4 P.M.
Supper had been hasty as Marj and Janet had to make it to the Church for pre-service preparations.
Ken put the cow in a...
In the Spirit of Malachi
Dec8 by justhappeneduponthis
The crickets have stopped
The chill has come on
The night sky it sparkles
Will be a clear dawn
And sleep has escaped me
The people, their pain
The scores at the River
Repenting again
So long they have waited
For Israel’s King
In shame...
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Love’s the Thing
Jun22 by justhappeneduponthis
Do not self-improve.
Do not even try.
I dispatched my Son
And I watched Him die.
And I heard His friends
Beg the reason why.
(That they needn’t die.)
And this holy life
That you strive to score
Is not bought with...
It’s God’s Call
May31 by justhappeneduponthis
I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, “You are mine, and you shall be mine. I...
Wheel A Rollin’
Dec1 by justhappeneduponthis
Three blocks from our house the church sign read: “What is the Secret of Being Content?”
Don’t ask me why but the first thing that popped into my head was an image of a gyroscope. You remember the little child’s metal spinning top? It had a...
Hero
Every thought of Him
An act of worship.
Every look upon
That unseen face
A study of calm
Compassion and courage.
The face marred more
Than any man’s,
Taking barbs
And spittle in the streets.
Pressing onward
To Destiny’s Hill.
Dreading it.
Loving it.
The Mission finished
By...
Take Now Thy Son...
“My Lord God, is that you,
This strange thing must I do;
In taking my dear son unto Moriah,
To have him harshly bound
And flung upon the ground,
A sacrifice consumed with holy fire?”
“Yes friend, that was my voice.
I’m giving you the choice
To render all according...
Please Accept This Lamb
“Please accept this lamb,”
The Hebrew father said.
Then gave it to the priest,
His hand placed on its head.
“A pure and spotless lamb,”
The temple priest replied.
Then quickly took the knife
And cut its throat. It died.
How horrible our sins must seem
Before a holy...